Liz Hurley and Arun NayarElizabeth Hurley’s new father in law has disown his son Arun Nayar and Liz after the way he claims he was treated at their recent wedding celebrations.

Vinod Nayar claims he was repeatedly disrespected during the nuptials after being barred from taking part in certain rituals and refused rooms in the main hotels used by the wedding party, and that the Indian guests at the Hello! magazine-funded events being treated as second-class citizens compared to the European guests.

He said recently: “My wife Joanne and I feel we were publicly humiliated and treated like social outcasts for the sake of a Hello! magazine deal. Liz and Arun have treated us very shabbily. My heart is heavy with pain.”

Vinod believes that Liz caused the problems and has changed Arun for the worse: “I knew she was very ambitious, but I never realised just how important fame and attention is to her. We were pushed into the background like poor relations. This has broken my heart.”


“I believe it was expressly done on Liz’s orders. Maybe they didn’t really want my side of the family there. They didn’t even have the good manners to invite my 87-year-old mother.”

“I once thought Liz was a lovely, unspoiled woman, but now I see that she is a very hard person. It was important for her to get celebrity faces there. That’s what the Hello! deal was about. She was fulfilling her contractual obligation.”

“I think this elaborate Indian event was Elizabeth’s theatrical dream. It was certainly not a serious attempt to honour our customs. In the end it was just nonsense. The magazine wanted a great show, so they could justify the big fee they were charged. I think it was blatant and cynical commercialism.”

“Out of the hundreds of photos taken at both events, I only feature in two. My dear wife was totally ostracised and is in none.”

Liz reportedly tried to ban Vinod’s wife Joanne from the UK ceremony after Joanne spoke to the media about the wedding: “My wife had merely said she was excited about the wedding, confirmed the dates and location, said that Liz was lovely and that we were all looking forward to welcoming her into the family. It was not exactly revealing any secrets.”

“I phoned Arun back in London. He said Liz was angry that Joanne had been talking to the press in India about the wedding. I was astounded. Liz was shouting in the background that she didn’t want my wife to come to the English wedding. She sounded very angry.”

“By insulting my wife they had insulted me. It was not the way we do things in India… we have respect for the head of the family and I felt I was being bullied by a young woman who was marrying into my family.”

“Joanne tried to calm me down by saying that I could go alone, but that was just not acceptable. So I sent an email to Liz telling her just how upset I was and suggesting that she might have overreacted. She sent one back the following day admitting that she might have acted rashly.”

Vinod added that he has written a formal letter to his son, Arun, to disown him and demanded he leave the apartment and offices Arun uses at Vinod’s company building in Mumbai: “I have decided to cut all ties with my son. I don’t wish ill to them but I feel that Liz and Arun behaved shamefully and placed more importance on showing off than their own family.”

“This was supposed to be the start of a lovely new chapter in all our lives. But I have only experienced sadness and loss.”

“This unpleasantness is not my doing. I am not doing this lightly. It’s a big step, I know, but I have come to the end of the road.”

“They let greed and a desire to show off to the world come before family. They have broken my heart and left me with no choice but to disown them.”